Muscadeddu 2015

Muscadeddu is Tenute Dettori's sweet amber wine made from Moscato di Sorso-Sennori grown at Badde Nigolosu, a single-vineyard cru in Sennori, in the Romangia sub-zone of northwestern Sardinia. The vines are trained to the low-bush alberello style and grow in calcareous, yellowish-white soils at 250-300 meters elevation, about 4 kilometers from the Gulf of Asinara. The estate is certified biodynamic since 2003 and all vineyard work is done by hand without any chemical inputs.

Grapes are hand-harvested, sorted on a steel table, destemmed but not pressed, and left to macerate in open concrete vats with no added yeasts or sulfites. Fermentation is spontaneous using indigenous yeasts. The wine is bottled without fining or filtration. Dettori does not monitor ABV, acidity, or pH during production — the target, as Alessandro Dettori puts it, is balance, not a technical spec. The color is amber-gold, a product of skin contact during maceration.

The Romangia IGT designation was a deliberate choice by Alessandro Dettori, who rejected DOC status in order to emphasize the specific terroir of Badde Nigolosu over grape variety or regional convention. The Muscadeddu takes its name from the Sardinian word for Moscato. Moscato has been grown in Romangia's limestone soils for centuries, historically known as the Moscato di Sorso-Sennori appellation zone.

This is a sweet wine with notable savory complexity: dried apricot, honey, almond, fig, and a distinctly salty mineral finish. Slight oxidative development over time adds depth. The 2015 vintage received a 91-point score on Wine-Searcher's aggregated critic reviews.

We will process and ship your order in 2-3 business days, you will receive a shipping confirmation email with tracking as soon as the Carrier scans the shipping label.

Ground shipping time depends on location, here's a breakdown:

West Coast: 1-2 business days
Midwest: 3-4 business days
East Coast: 5 business days

Process time is not shipping time. Shipping time starts from the days successive to the day of shipping, after the order has been processed.

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Important Compliance Requirements

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Re-shipping a Package

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If you'd like to receive a refund for a package that was returned to us after FedEx made three delivery attempts, we can do that but we must keep a $20 refund fee; FedEx charges us a lot of money for returns, unfortunately, I can't stress this enough.

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Heat/Frost damage

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**If delivery is attempted 3 times without success, or if you fail to retrieve your package from the carrier depot by the stated deadline, the shipping fee will not be refunded to the customer.

Returns Policy

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